About Julian Reeve - Keynote Speaker on Stress, Burnout & Sustainable Success
Award-winning Broadway Music Director turned keynote speaker, Julian Reeve helps organizations, educators, and innovators achieve lasting success through sustainable well-being. Drawing on a career that spans global performance, entrepreneurship, and leadership, he offers practical insights that empower individuals and teams to thrive without burnout.
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Julian’s Story: Broadway to Burnout to Breakthrough
Critically acclaimed for his work on the Broadway smash-hit Hamilton, Julian’s rich career experience is compelling. After graduating with honors from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England, he built a global career as a musician, educator, and entrepreneur, performing to millions while founding companies and mentoring creative talent across the world.
Early Career
In music, Julian contributed to more than twenty international Broadway productions, including seven in London’s West End, before earning the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Music Direction for Hamilton. In the U.S., he led the first presentations of the show at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and at the Centro de Bellas Artes Luis A. Ferré in Puerto Rico alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda.
In business, he founded JPR Productions, producing large-scale theatrical concert tours across Europe, and later co-founded the boutique talent agency Boland & Reeve in London. As a mentor and educator, he helped thousands of students develop confidence, musicianship, and psychological resilience through self-awareness and self-compassion.
The Wake Up Call
All of this success came at a cost.
In 2017, while conducting Hamilton in San Fransisco, Julian suffered a stress-related heart attack at the age of 43. Years of relentless ambition, poor boundaries, and insufficient attention to self-care had finally caught up with him.
Recovery required more than rest - it demanded a complete re-examination of how he achieved success and defined achievement.
The Breakthrough: Finding Perfect Equilibrium®
That crisis led to deep research into stress, burnout, and performance psychology. Coaching and mentorship with CEOs, psychologists, and creative leaders followed, and Perfect Equilibrium® was born: a practical framework that integrates mindset, systems, and strategy to achieve sustainable high performance.
Today, this approach helps individuals and organizations identify the habits, beliefs, and structures that drive both success and strain, building cultures of well-being, creativity, and resilience.
Today
Julian is now a trusted voice in organizational well-being and leadership development. He serves on the Advisory Board for HR.com’s Research Institute (Employee Retention) and has presented keynotes for GE Aerospace, Teleflora, Learn4Life, MPI, PHIRA, and HR.com among others.
His TEDx Talk on perfectionism and features in The Hill, Fast Company, and CEO World Magazine highlight his expertise in balancing ambition with sustainability. Julian’s insights have appeared on ABC, NBC, and CBS, and he continues to advise companies and educators seeking healthier, more effective ways to achieve exceptional results.
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